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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  the first, second, and third installments, in case you want to read them ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our ... took our class to Boxaroo (an escape room in Boston founded by MIT Alums

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... got me to fall in love with the idea of being an MIT student. 4 years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... week, he gently reminded me, "You chose to live here in Massachusetts ... suppose. First way to enjoy a spring in Cambridge: Find the appropriate

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  .005 is in 15 minutes. I go to the basement to get Raising Steam by Terry ... gets larger in the window, nighttime Boston like a wet spiderweb beneath ... to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  the poster with the llama gets to be in the top half. +1 for the Pac ... , grumbling about having to make one of these posters in the first place and ... in Building 68 in the past two weeks, from least favorite to most

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  see how well that works. I used to hear that cooking is just applied ... . Okay, so let's get right to the... MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your ... I made this at 2:00 AM and left it to chill in the fridge overnight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... under trees and getting hit in the face by leaves, or maybe you like ... in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh ... a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I ... -order coherence). We expect to get [latex]g^{(2)}(0) = 0[/latex] because that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  talking to my dad about my job - this job - and how much I loved it. I told him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his ... has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... 't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get ... like science? You do well in school? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE WHO APPLIES TO

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... material fine but I do feel like I need to figure out how to synthesize my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first ... . the chicken coop in the backyard. the housemates who i've come to know ... internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... some official record if i got covid and wanted to get paxlovid." when i ... , affecting my nose and inducing pain in my ears, it was difficult to fall

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... art; it was more me struggling to learn how to use 3D modeling programs

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture from Bono's visit to MIT to discuss poverty research. Here's Bono with ... -- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly ... understanding. That click to go off in my head. Needless to say, it didn't. 8 ... floundered with the Expo marker in some desperate attempt to write something

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  Update #1 (1:40 PM) Currently in 13-4101 trying to solve our first puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2 ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on ... through every single aisle and getting our bearings, we decided to start ... find was 1999, so who knows how long it had been around before it closed

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... 'd be judged not on how close our shots are to the center, but on how ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020